Skip to main content

Home/ CI579Sp2011/ Group items tagged utilities

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Bob Abrams

Using FB in the classroom - 1 views

www.onlinecollege.org/...ing-facebook-in-your-classroom

facebook classroom uses curriculum ideas

shared by Bob Abrams on 07 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Bob Abrams on 07 Feb 11
     
    October 20th, 2009 Facebook isn't just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what's happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class.
janie reneau

K-3 Teachers Guide to Twitter - 0 views

www.k-3teacherresources.com/teachers-guide-to-twitter.html

Twitter integrated technology k-3 resources

shared by janie reneau on 26 Mar 11 - Cached
  • janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
     
    This site from Chris Elliot Consulting was designed to initiate educators into using Twitter in engaging classroom learning activities.There are some free resources.The author takes Twitter novices through the steps of communicating and then how to utilize it in classroom challenges.His ten steps will get just about anyone active in using Twitter.
janie reneau

Technology - Wekiva Elementary School - 0 views

www.wekivaelementary.com/...technology

computer lab Trek for Tech technology integration

shared by janie reneau on 26 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
     
    Karyn Cook of Wekiva Elementary School is a proponent of integrating technology into classrooms. She relates details about how the potential for learning including collaboration, accessing information, creativity, and problem-solving can be enhanced by technology and technology savvy teachers. This site can be utilized by her faculty, staff, and students as well as beginning teachers. She provides links to subjects that may be of interest to elementary teachers.
janie reneau

Links to Interactive Whiteboard Lessons - 0 views

www.amphi.com/...lessonplans.html

Smartboard Podcasts Sequencing interactive learning

shared by janie reneau on 26 Mar 11 - Cached
    • janie reneau
      janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
       
      The Smarboard can transform how lessons in elementary schools enable engaged learning for students.
  • Smart and Getting Smarter- This site provides ideas to maximize SmartBoards as interactive hands-on, minds-on technology tools to support students as they demonstrate what they know in multiple ways. It provides an overiew and lesson activities and interactive sites in math, science, social studies, humanities, language arts and early learning.
  • Using Electronic Whiteboards in Your Classroom -This site provides ideas, lesson plans, and websites for using the SmartBoard in the classroom. This site is divided by content area.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • Sequencing with a SmartBoard- In this lesson, students will be assembled into groups of three or four. Students will be responsible for reading a selected picture book, identifying six main ideas from the text, and mixing the main events into an unorganized list. Student groups will then record their unorganized lists into the SMARTBoard notebook software. Once all groups have entered their list, student groups will receive a different group’s book and their created list. Students will organize the new list of main events, and using the Smart Ideas Software or concept mapping software, create a concept map of the assigned story and events.
  • SmartBoard Lessons Podcast Collection -The purpose of this site is to accompany a free podcast that focuses on using SMART Boards in the classroom. Each episode will feature a lesson, a podcast, and user comments. The hosts, Joan Badger and Ben Hazzard, have been recognized as Canadian & International Innovative Teachers by Microsoft, SMART Exemplary Educators, Peer Educators, Tradeshow Teachers, and Conference Presenters on the use of SMARTBoards in the classroom.
  • janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
     
    Amphitheater Public Schools maintains this page as a resource for teachers who need a centralized place to come for learning the basics and techniques of using a Smartboard. It lists several sites that have pre-made compatible lessons in many subjects that can be addressed by students on the Whiteboard. There is a link to a Podcast collection which contains lessons, Smartboard Podcasts, and comments. It follows good educational pedogogy and utilizes lessons that stretch the imagination and gets students to think by acting and reacting with the Smartboard.
Dawn Peterson

Education World - 0 views

www.educationworld.com/a_tech

Information

shared by Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11
     
    This site offers information on various types of technologies and how to utilize them in the classroom.
Dawn Peterson

Universal Design and Accessible Technology in Schools - 0 views

www.ucp.org/...4543

Instructional Design

shared by Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11
     
    Very interesting article on the utilization of technology in schools to assist children with disabilities
janie reneau

Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students - 0 views

www2.ed.gov/...effectsstudents.html

classroom technology integration collaboration projects teacher roles motivation computers and culture

shared by janie reneau on 26 Mar 11 - Cached
    • janie reneau
      janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
       
      Using technology in the classroom improves collaboration, engagement, and problem solving.
  • When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons. Moreover, when technology is used as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks, the students are in the position of defining their goals, making design decisions, and evaluating their progress. The teacher's role changes as well. The teacher is no longer the center of attention as the dispenser of information, but rather plays the role of facilitator, setting project goals and providing guidelines and resources, moving from student to student or group to group, providing suggestions and support for student activity. As students work on their technology-supported products, the teacher rotates through the room, looking over shoulders, asking about the reasons for various design choices, and suggesting resources that might be used. (See example of teacher as coach.) Project-based work (such as the City Building Project and the Student-Run Manufacturing Company) and cooperative learning approaches prompt this change in roles, whether technology is used or not. However, tool uses of technology are highly compatible with this new teacher role, since they stimulate so much active mental work on the part of students. Moreover, when the venue for work is technology, the teacher often finds him or herself joined by many peer coaches--students who are technology savvy and eager to share their knowledge with others.
  • When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons. Moreover, when technology is used as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks, the students are in the position of defining their goals, making design decisions, and evaluating their progress.
  • ...1 more annotation...
    • janie reneau
      janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
       
      One goal for teachers is to provide students with life-long skills. Utilizing technology in problem solving is authentic.
  • janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
     
    3.This site comes from a research project sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement/U.S. Department of Education.The purpose of the site is to report on the effects of technology on students and classrooms.The audience for this site would be teachers interested in keeping up with technology in their classrooms.The site uses data collected from projects in classrooms.The design is a report of the results of data collection on actual technology projects and how they affected student learning.The results were positive in that students developed confidence, worked harder at problem-solving, developed peer collaboration skills, and learned to use computer skills in the real world.A negative was that teachers observed students using the tools more than completing the tasks.
janie reneau

15 Resources for Elementary Music Teachers « The Digital Music Educator - 0 views

digitalmusiceducator.wordpress.com/...-for-elementary-music-teachers

music technology advocacy integration

shared by janie reneau on 26 Mar 11 - Cached
    • janie reneau
      janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
       
      Music teachers are always looking for low cost or free resources for the classroom, and this site has many sites with utilities.
  • The web is an excellent resource for music teachers who need free education materials for the elementary classroom. There are a number of sites that offers articles about music education and teaching strategies, lesson plans, classroom tools, children’s songs, fingerplays, and other helpful materials. Here are 15 sites to explore throughout the school year.
  • The web is an excellent resource for music teachers who need free education materials for the elementary classroom. There are a number of sites that offers articles about music education and teaching strategies, lesson plans, classroom tools, children’s songs, fingerplays, and other helpful materials. Here are 15 sites to explore throughout the school year
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • The web is an excellent resource for music teachers who need free education materials for the elementary classroom. There are a number of sites that offers articles about music education and teaching strategies, lesson plans, classroom tools, children’s songs, fingerplays, and other helpful materials. Here are 15 sites to explore throughout the school year
  • The web is an excellent resource for music teachers who need free education materials for the elementary classroom. There are a number of sites that offers articles about music education and teaching strategies, lesson plans, classroom tools, children’s songs, fingerplays, and other helpful materials. Here are 15 sites to explore throughout the school year. MusTech.net – Created by Dr. Prof. Joseph Pisano, this music technology site is a good place for elementary teachers to read about music education, music technology, and music advocacy. Other site features include links to
  • music-related hardware, software, and freeware.
  • This web-based computer program for music teachers tracks lesson schedules, invoices, payments, and more. It is free to use for teachers who have three students or less.
  • janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
     
    The author of this blog is Owen Bradley, band director at NorthPort High in North Port, Florida.The purpose of this site is to provide high quality music educator information sites.The audience for this blog is music educator professionals. Mr. Bradley researched the sites and sifted out 15 quality sites. Each site has a short, consite description.He keeps the site current and the responses are appropriate.
  • janie reneau on 26 Mar 11
     
    Because money for classroom projects is scarce, we need sites like this for information on free activities.
Bob Abrams

Save paper & ink printing only what you want « PrintWhatYouLike.com - 0 views

www.printwhatyoulike.com

printing tools print web2.0 web utilities printwhatyoulike tool

shared by Bob Abrams on 22 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Bob Abrams on 22 Mar 11
     
    "Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds!"
Dawn Peterson

My List: A Collection on "Webliography" | Diigo - 0 views

www.diigo.com/...webliography

shared by Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • This site is dedicated to improving k-12 learning process by using digital media to document, disseminate, and advocate for innovative, replicable strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives.
    • Dawn Peterson
      Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11
       
      This site is from a text book manufacture.
  • Very interesting article on the utilization of technology in schools to assist children with disabilities
    • Dawn Peterson
      Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11
       
      Instructional design concepts can be used to create a variety of technology infused lessons.
  • This section of the site provides information and resources for using educational technology
    • Dawn Peterson
      Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11
       
      This is a very nice reference site.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • There are already many online communities through which educators can connect with people and resources, but these communities tend to be isolated from each other, leading to redundancy of effort, missed opportunities for collaboration, and difficulty in finding appropriate support and resources.
    • Dawn Peterson
      Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11
       
      Teitter, Plurk and other social networking sites tend to be the most popular with teachers
  • The Department of Education and the Department of Defense are actively seeking participation in an exciting new joint project, the Learning Registry, which is designed to ensure that educators, learners, innovators, and the general public can access learning resources easily from a variety of platforms-websites, community portals, and other repositories of digital learning resources
    • Dawn Peterson
      Dawn Peterson on 21 Apr 11
       
      In September, the Learning Registry will form a permanent network of digital learning resource providers. It will enable each provider to share its content with any other repository or resource aggregator that wants to harvest it. With this integration, a user need search only a single website to find resources produced from many sites. The Learning Registry will be robust, having no single point of failure or control, and flexible, allowing different levels of participation.
1 - 10 of 10
Showing 20▼ items per page